 On February 1, 2018, it was reported by the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" that the Weirton Medical Center, a major advertiser for three of Nutting's papers ("Weirton Daily Times" in Weirton, West Virginia, "Herald-Star" in Steubenville, Ohio, and "The Review" in East Liverpool, Ohio), were pulling its ads from the papers over “the failure of the Pirates to craft a deal to keep Andrew McCutchen a Pirate.”

Nutting serves as the President and CEO of Ogden Newspapers, Inc. headquartered in Wheeling, West Virginia.He is the great-grandson of company founder H. C. Ogden, and is the fourth generation of his family to run the company.Ogden Newspapers publishes 40 daily newspapers, multiple weekly newspapers and magazines as well as many phone directories.